Irish Music

U2

The Dubliners

• Irish Rock band since 1976

• from Dublin

• the members :

• Singer : Bono (Paul David Hewson)

• Guitarist: The Edge (David Howell Evans)

• Bassist: Adam Clayton

• Drummer: Larry Mullen junior

• they have many number one hits in different countries

• U2 insert for many social and political Projects and they also write songs about this thematic

• the band was founded in a pub in Dublin 1962
• as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group
• the name „the Dubliners“ originated from a book names “Dubliners”
• the end of the group was 2012
• because the last founding member died
• they made a farewell tour
• one of the concerts was in Hannover
• one of the oldest songs is "Leaving of Liverpool"
• covered whiskey in the jar

farwell tour= Abschiedstour

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Sources

Picture Sources

Tap-dance

• http://www.n-tv.de/leute/musik/Sinead-OConnor-ganz-schoen-aufgeraeumt-article13237726.html
• http://www.u2.com/band
• http://www.laut.de/U2
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• http://nme.assets.ipccdn.co.uk/images/gallery/1970DublinersPA100412.jpg
• http://www.zyx.de/data/produktdaten/cover/090204816163.jpg

• the best know dance from Ireland
• rhythmically dance
• they just move their feet and legs
• Jig, Reel and Hornpipe is directed after the tact
• they use Irish step shoes
• with hells and tips
• to make the sound
• there exist European and world championships

• http://irish-net.de/Irish-Folk/Irische-Musik/
• http://www.irlandguide.de/irische-musik-von-irish-folk-bis-zu-rock/99/
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• http://www.fleadhcheoil.ie/about-the-fleadh/
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• http://penzeng.de/Geige/Fiddle.htm
• http://www.fiddlingaround.co.uk/ireland/
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• http://www.tin-whistles.de/
• http://www.tinwhistlekurse.de/tinwhistlegeschichte.html
• http://irish-net.de/Irish-Folk/Tin-Whistle/

Irish Folk Rock

Conclusion

• you can find traditional Instruments too
• melodic and dancey
• traditional sounds connect with modern elements
• Irish Rock remove Irish Folk by the young generation
• modern elements form Irish Folk Rock help that the Irish music gets more well-known and popular

• there exists different types of Irish Folk
• Irish Folk Rock
• Irish rebel music
• we have got big festivals in Ireland and Germany too
• there are typical Irish music instruments
• Harps, Fiddles, Pipes and the Tin Whistle
• there is a well known Irish dance
• Tap-dance
• some bands who are Irish and make Irish music
• also Irish bands who make Pop, Rock or Hip-hop

History of Irish Music

Irish Folk Open Air Poyenberg

• two thousand years ago the Celts arrived in Ireland and brought the music with them
• since the 17. Century people tried to escape from poverty of Ireland to America
• in the 18th Century instruments were added to the acapella songs
• in the 19. Century there were also English texts

Irish Folk

History

• first festival was 2001
• the biggest Irish folk festival on Schleswig-Holstein
• one of the biggest Irish folk festivals in Germany
• sold off in 5 to 10 hours
• about 7.500 persons
• something to eat from everywhere in the world
• last festival is on 13th june 2015
• the Sally Gardens and Red Hot Chilli Pipers

poverty=Armut

Fleadh Cheoil Festival

• biggest traditional Irish music festival on the earth
• it changes every year where the festival takes place
• can reach attendances of 400,000 over the course of nine eventful days
• a competition for amateur musicians
• more than 400 different events took place, and in excess of 6,000 musicians took part in

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• because of the great famine 1860 one million people died
• the immigrants brought the ballads, laments and other traditions to big cities
• so Irish music spread out
• 1972 the song "The Men Behind the Wire" was 5 weeks number one on the Irish hitlist
• today there are many session on Irish pubs

Tin Whistle

• has only 6 holes

• Tin Whistle means something like “iron sheet pipe”

• easy to learn

• an instrument from the British isles

• high, bright and clearly sound

• Robert Clarke was the first industrial producer

• produced the Tin Whistle in Manchester 1843

• rambler brought the Tin Whistle to Ireland

• since 1843 the tin whistles have nearly the same construction method

without ornamentation

Irish Fiddel

Uileann Pipe

Celtic Harp

rambler=Wanderer

with ornamentation

• the name originates because you play it with your elbow
• Uileann means elbow
• the pipes were the resultant of the submission of the Irishmen
• it was forbidden to play on a pipe so they made a more quietly pipe
• the sound of the pipes are tender and soft
• 2.500€ to 6.000€.

• is identical with the violin, but it's played different in the different styles

• shows up in Ireland about the seventeenth century

• have a very bold and uplifting sound

• easier to play than classic Fiddle

• less stylistic means like vibrato (tone pitch stagger, gets higher and deeper wavelike)

• in this fiddle tradition ornamentation is necessary

• it’s the fiddlers exercise to create a ornamented and rhythmic version

• don't write it down

• formed by the persons own creativity

• one of the oldest instruments in the world
• typical for the round columns
• in the Middle ages it was an aristocratic instrument
• because of the submission of the Irishmen the harp wasn’t well-know till 1970
• symbol of the Irishmen, it’s on the Irish euro coin
• 130€ to 1.700€

submission=Unterwerfung

tender=zart

ornamentation=Ausschmückungen

Irish Music